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I drove slowly coming in, because I'd been drinking and because of that feeling of expectancy. I was on Clayton, out around Fiftieth, when I heard the voice. It said, ‘Sergeant Murray will be killed to—’ ” “Yeah, yeah” I interrupted. For some reason, it made my tooth ache worse when he said that. I looked at him a minute trying to figure out how much truth he was telling me. I couldn't swallow that spirit message stuff. But the rest of it? It would be easy to get and check the names of the people he'd been with.

It shoots a small gauge shotgun shell. Of course, this one wouldn't be loaded. Maybe my pal Colin — 63 — MacCready didn't know I'd read his most recent book, but I had. ” Alcoholism was one of the things it was supposed to help. I won't go into details, but the basic idea is to scare the pants off the patient. He'd described several ways of doing it; apparently the treatment was varied to suit the individual case. I personally thought the idea was screwy when I read about it, but then I'm not a psychiatrist, thank heaven.